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Greece under pressure to act on refugees

Greece is under pressure to do more to stem the flow of migrants to northern Europe as the EU mulls extending temporary border controls inside its

World News

Video explainer: All you need to know about under-threat Schengen

Here we take a look at Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone, which is facing its biggest ever threat. What is the Schengen zone? It is a zone within

Europe News

Turkey urges EU to honour €3bn refugee cash pledge

Turkey has told the EU to stump up the three billion euros promised by governments to help Ankara stem the flow of migrants to Europe. That deal was

Denmark

Refugee crisis: Denmark "punishes people already here” to deter future asylum seekers

How should refugees be treated? It’s a fundamental question that is threatening to tear apart the EU. Denmark thinks it has the answers: that it is

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Netherlands

Migrant crisis: EU ministers meet for informal talks in Amsterdam

European interior and justice ministers have been meeting in Amsterdam to discuss the migrant crisis and a common EU border force. The European

World News

Calais 'jungle' migrant camp is 'bad for business' say locals

Calais residents and local business people have called on the authorities to “ clean up” the refugee camp on their doorstep. Hundreds marched through

Poland

Anti-migrant protesters rally in Poland

Protesters in Poland took to the streets on Sunday to say ‘No’ to accepting migrants. Some at the rally at Gora Kalwaria, some 30 kilometres south

France

Migrants detained in Calais after illegally boarding ferry bound for Britain

French police escorted a group of migrants back to a camp in Calais after they had managed to break through security and board a ferry bound for

Netherlands

Dutch MP hands out defence spray against "Islamic testosterone bombs"

Dutch, far-right, anti-immigration MP Geert Wilders has handed out self-defence sprays containing red paint. The stunt, he says, is to help fearful

France

Jeremy Corbyn labels conditions at France's refugee camps 'a disgrace'

Leader of the UK’s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has labelled the conditions at refugee camps in northern France “a disgrace.” His first trip abroad as

Greece

Going nowhere: Refugees stuck at Greece-Macedonian border

Hundreds of migrants and refugees remain stranded between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with intermittent border closures and

Germany

Migrant crisis: Iraqis return home, disenchanted with life in Germany

Heval Aram is waiting for a flight to Iraq. He says he and his family travelled for 12 days to reach Germany, but the poor conditions they

World News

More than 40 refugees drown as their boats capsize off Greece

This month is already the deadliest January on record for migrants crossing the Aegean

World News

Croatia follows FYROM: new rules limit migrant travel across Balkans

Croatia Croatia is following in the footsteps of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s (FYROM) and introducing new measures for migrants

Economy

World Economic Forum: EU starts 2016 deeply divided over migration crisis

A small window into a global humanitarian crisis, the ‘Day in the Life of a Refugee’ experience at Davos gives delegates a chance to stand in the

Switzerland

Europe has 'six to eight weeks' to fix migrant crisis - Dutch PM

The Dutch prime minister says Europe has just six to eight weeks to find a fix for the migrant crisis. Mark Rutte was speaking at the World Economic

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UN chief visits Zaatari Camp in Jordan

Mogens Lykketoft, President of United Nations General Assembly, visits the Zaatari camp, Jordan. Lykketoft said the purpose of his visit is to get

World News

IMF proposes prickly solutions for Europe's refugee 'challenges'

Question of survival How can Europe survive mounting refugee pressures? A study by the IMF presented in Davos, Switzerland, has proposed that the

United Kingdom

Asylum seekers in Middlesborough say they are being housed in "marked" homes

Suspicions are running high in the northern English city of Middlesborough, which has welcomed the highest number of refugees and asylum seekers

Austria

Austria to slash the number of asylum claims it accepts

But what is the response from Germany?